Get Capone: The Secret Plot That Captured America's Most Wanted Gangster by Jonathan EigMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is more than the story of bringing down Capone, but a full biography of his professional life from panderer to syphilis-tormented Miami Beach resident. New scholarship sheds light on the St. Valentine's Day Massacre (looks like at least in part a cop-involved vendetta for the slaying of a cop's son) and more. Ness and The Untouchables get taken down a few notches as being largely ineffective and unimportant. Philadelphia for actually imprisoning Capone and U. S. Attorney George E. Q. Johnson for successfully getting a tax evasion case and more to sent Scarface to The Rock are the real nemeses here. Lots of facts on The Outfit associates like Nitti and brother Ralph as well as facts on what happened post-Capone and to the gangsters' children. The book also makes the case that Capone was flashy like Gotti but possibly not as high up on the org chart as may be assumed.
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